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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8237545, member: 26430&quot;]Oh, that&#039;s rather frustrating. (<span style="color: #ff0000"><i>Did they mention CNG or &quot;A. Short Collection&quot; in their listing?</i></span>) <b><i>EDIT: Oops asked &amp; answered!</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I figure the most common reason for provenance getting &quot;lost&quot; is probably the perfectly understandable one from a commercial standpoint: Sometimes a seller doesn&#039;t want buyers to know where or how recently they got a coin or what they paid; best to say nothing at all pretend it was immaculately conceived into the inventory or auction catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>But certainly frustrating from the perspective of a collector! Even more frustrating to buy coins one knows to have recently been accompanied by great collector tags/labels/envelopes that were simply discarded. I always try to photograph / scan tags on coins I buy just in case they get lost somewhere down the line, at least a photocopy can be recovered (I&#039;d settle for copies for my all my lost BCD tags or all my Phil Peck envelopes that were discarded along the way, etc.).</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Edit</b></i>: By the way, I see at least two more on VCoins now that do mention the &quot;A. Short Collection&quot; provenance in their listing.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.s. this was my first ex-Orfew coin from <b><i>way back</i> </b>in Ancient &amp; Medieval Coins Canada Auction 2 which also had a CT thread and previously came from the collection of the great E.E. Clain-Stefanelli:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449466[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>By now I have a pretty good number of Ex-CoinTalk member coins (more than attachments allowed in one post I suspect) -- I&#039;m actually working on a post to show a bunch of them (that idea has probably been had in the past as well).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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